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BART officials address overdose deaths as they struggle with ridership

Phil Matier
Phil Matier
Episode • Aug 2, 2023 • 4m

BART officials say a man who died on a train at San Francisco's Embarcadero Station last night apparently overdosed.

It's the latest in a string of overdose deaths on the system with the transit agency previously reporting seven fatalities in the first three months of the year.

Safety is a key issue for the agency as it tries to get riders back. So what is BART doing and what needs to be done? For more on this, KCBS Radio's Bret Burkhart and Patti Reising spoke with KCBS insider Phil Matier.

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